Parco Nazionale della Maiella

In all the seasons of the year, the Park offers the visitor a changeable setting of extraordinary beauty.
Late spring is the season of blooming and, together with autumn, the best period to visit towns and hermitages. Summer is the best season to go along the trails. October will enchant you with the thousands colors of the beech trees and leads to winter which, with its white blanket, makes the landscape particularly charming.
The diversity of the environments, the richness of nature, the evidences left by the human presence make Majella the ideal place to go hiking, an activity giving the visitor the opportunity to discover the most concealed aspects of the area.
The itineraries for trekking-lovers are sometimes long and tiring; those mainly developing in the high mountains are less tiring but nevertheless demanding, both for the climatic conditions and the orienteering difficulties. Therefore, it is recommended not to abandon the trails marked by the Park and to rely on the experience of qualified staff both to obtain information and to be guided during your tours.
The entrance to the Park is free.

In the silences of the rocks and the forests of the mounts Majella and Morrone hermits often without a name searched for the desert, symbol of a natural life. Here they lived in solitude, privation and prayer. Here they left their hermitages, places without time made of stones and spirituality.

(the following links all lead to Italian texts)

• The Majella Highlands
• The Orfento Valley
• Highlands
• Pizzi Mountains
• Avello Valley
• Orta Valley
• The Morrone Massif
• Fara Valley
• San Bartolomeo in Legio
• Hermitage/Cave of S. Giovanni della Maiella
• Abbey of San Liberatore a Majella
• Monastery of S. Martino in Valle
• Hermitage of S. Onofrio del Morrone
• Santo Spirito a Majella
• Abbey of S. Spirito del Morrone
• Guardiagrele
• Monte Porrara
• Lama Bianca
• Sulmona
• Caramanico Terme
• Roccacaramanico
• Pescocostanzo
• Bosco Sant'Antonio
• Tavola dei Briganti